fix: verify the metadata database certificate with sslmode=verify-full (#235)

Part of https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft/issues/225. Stacked on #234.

Every connection to the metadata database used `sslmode = 'require'`, which encrypts but does not authenticate the server, so anyone able to impersonate `r-binaries.devxy.io:15432` would receive `PGPASS`.

## Changes

- `.crow/build-all-versions.yaml`, `process-updates.yaml`, `prune-stale-flat-binaries.yaml`, `reindex.yaml`, `weekly-rebuild-reindex.yaml`: `metadata_db_sslmode = 'verify-full'` in every bincraft call.
- `local/*.R`: the same for bincraft calls; scripts that call `DBI::dbConnect()` directly also pass `sslrootcert = bincraft::postgres_sslrootcert("verify-full")`, because libpq looks for `~/.postgresql/root.crt` rather than the system trust store.
- `README.md`: note that the endpoint serves a Let's Encrypt certificate and how to verify it.
- air reformatted three `=` assignments to `<-` in `local/missing-cran-packages-db.R` and `local/packages-without-any-binary.R` while the hook ran on those files.

## Ordering: merge last

1. devxy/k8s-talos#417 must be live: today the server presents an in-cluster certificate from a private CA, which `verify-full` rejects.
2. https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft/pulls/226 must be released: `local/install-bincraft.R` installs the latest tag, and older releases neither pass a root certificate nor export `postgres_sslrootcert()`.
3. #234 must be merged.

Merging early fails every database connection in CI, and since #234 per-minor reindex failures fail the pipeline.

Reviewed-on: #235
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Patrick Schratz 2026-10-17 07:45:46 +00:00 • committed by Patrick Schratz
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@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ steps:
# rhel-10 ships xwfb-run (Xwayland) instead of xvfb-run; prefer it and start weston, else fall back to xvfb-run
- XVFB=$(command -v xwfb-run 2>/dev/null || command -v xvfb-run); XVFB_ARGS="-a"; if command -v xwfb-run >/dev/null 2>&1; then dnf install -y -q weston 2>/dev/null; XVFB_ARGS="-c weston"; fi
# options(future.globals.onReference = NULL): for some reason s3fs::file_delete() throws 'Error: Detected a non-exportable reference ('externalptr') in one of the globals ('FUN' of class 'function') used in the future expression' otherwise
- $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- /opt/R/$R_VERSION/bin/R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = '${OS}', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = ${PROCESS_NEW}, process_removed = TRUE, patches = 'local/patches', r_minor_detection = 'classifier',s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
- $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- /opt/R/$R_VERSION/bin/R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = '${OS}', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = ${PROCESS_NEW}, process_removed = TRUE, patches = 'local/patches', r_minor_detection = 'classifier',s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'verify-full', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
- |
PRIMARY_MINOR=$(echo "$R_VERSION" | cut -d. -f1-2)
for RBIN in /opt/R/[0-9]*/bin/R; do
@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ steps:
mkdir -p "$LIB"
R_LIBS_USER="$LIB" "$(dirname "$RBIN")/Rscript" local/install-bincraft.R || true
R_LIBS_USER="$LIB" UVR_R_BIN="$RBIN" local/uvr-install.sh RPostgres || true
R_LIBS_USER="$LIB" $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- "$(dirname "$RBIN")/R" -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = '${OS}', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = FALSE, process_removed = FALSE, patches = 'local/patches', r_minor_detection = 'classifier',r_minor_sensitive_only = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)" || true
R_LIBS_USER="$LIB" $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- "$(dirname "$RBIN")/R" -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = '${OS}', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = FALSE, process_removed = FALSE, patches = 'local/patches', r_minor_detection = 'classifier',r_minor_sensitive_only = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'verify-full', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)" || true
# Also build current packages whose required dependency tree needs a newer R.
R_LIBS_USER="$LIB" $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- "$(dirname "$RBIN")/Rscript" local/build-newer-r.R "$R_VERSION"
done
@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ steps:
FAILED_MINORS=""
for RBIN in /opt/R/[0-9]*/bin/R; do
RMINOR=$(basename "$(dirname "$(dirname "$RBIN")")" | cut -d. -f1-2)
/opt/R/$R_VERSION/bin/R -q -e "library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = '${OS_ID}', r_minor = '$RMINOR', s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_port = 15432L, metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require')" || FAILED_MINORS="$FAILED_MINORS $RMINOR"
/opt/R/$R_VERSION/bin/R -q -e "library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = '${OS_ID}', r_minor = '$RMINOR', s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_port = 15432L, metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'verify-full')" || FAILED_MINORS="$FAILED_MINORS $RMINOR"
done
if [ -n "$FAILED_MINORS" ]; then
echo "Could not republish the per-minor index for:$FAILED_MINORS" >&2